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Illustration from first serialization of
Henry James's The Turn of the Screw |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Leonardo da Vinci (1452; died May 2, 1519) Italian polymath;
Mona Lisa;
Last Supper;
The Annunciation
Leonhard Euler (1707; died September 18, 1783) Swiss mathematician and scientist known for
Lettres à une princesse d'Allemagne sur divers sujets de physique et de philosophie (
Letters to a German Princess, On Different Subjects in Physics and Philosophy); science and math texts
Henry James (1843; died February 28, 1916) American-born British writer;
The American;
The Turn of the Screw;
The Portrait of a Lady;
What Maisie Knew;
The Wings of the Dove;
Daisy Miller;
The Ambassadors;
Washington Square
Died on this day:
Abraham Lincoln (1865; born February 12, 1809) American president; "House Divided" speech; "First Inaugural Address"; "The Gettysburg Address"; "Second Inaugural Address"
Matthew Arnold (1888; born December 24, 1822) English poet and critic; "Dover Beach"; "The Scholar-Gipsy"; "Thyrsis";
Culture and Anarchy;
Literature and Dogma
Jean-Paul Sartre (1980; born June 21, 1905) French philosopher, playwright, novelist, and critic;
Nausea;
Huis Clos (
No Exit);
L'Être et le Néant (
Being and Nothingness);
L'existentialisme est un humanisme (
Existentialism is a Humanism)
Jean Genet (1986; born December 19, 1910) French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist; novels
Our Lady of the Flowers,
The Thief's Journal; play
The Balcony
Leslie Charteris (1993; born May 12, 1907) British-Chinese author of adventure fiction; creator of Simon Templar ("The Saint")
Bonus Classic:
Livy (64/59 BCE-17 CE) Roman historian who wrote
Ab Urbe Condita Libri (
Books from the Foundation of the City) [a history of Rome]
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